Needham, Elias Parkman – Nelson, Julia Bullard
Needham, Elias Parkman
inventor, was born Sept. 12, 1812, in Delhi, N. Y. , N. Y.
In 1878 he conceived the idea of using idea of using strips of perforated paper for the autoautomatic production of music, which resulted in the mechanical orguinette or automatic or automatic organ. He died Nov. 28, 1889, in New York city.
Neely, Henry Adams
D. D., clergyman, bishop, was born May 14, 1830, in 14, 1830, in Fayetteville, N. Y. He was ordained a ordained a priest in 1854, and consecrated bishop of bishop of Maine in 1867. His writings consist of consist of sermons, addresses, and hymns.
Neely, Sidney Smith
legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1832, in Lincoln county, Lincoln county, Ky. He received his education at the education at the Central college of Danville, Ky.; has been has been a justice of the peace, notary public, postpublic, postmaster, and served with distinction as a distinction as a member of the Missouri state legislature.
He is prominent in the business affairs of Sibley, Mo., and takes an active part in part in the public affairs of his city, county and , county and state.
Neeley, Thomas B
clergyman, author, was born in 18—. He is a methodist is a methodist clergyman, and the author of Young of Young Workers in the Church; The Church The Church Lyceum; Parliamentary Practice ; Evolution of Episcopacy and Organic Methodism; The Parliamentarian; and The Govand The Governing Conference in Methodism .
Neff, Henry H
soldier, journalist, state legislator, was born June 5, 1815, in 5, 1815, in Preble county, Ohio. In the year 1843 he year 1843 he began the publication of the Winchester the Winchester Patriot, which he continued for nine for nine years. He was elected to the Indiana state Indiana state legislature in 1847 on the whig ticket, and ticket, and in 1852 was elected clerk of the court, of the court, serving in that capacity eight years. a
Negley, James Scott
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1826, in East , in East Liberty, Pa. He entered the volunteer the volunteer service in 1861; in 1861; raised a brigade in three days, and was made brigadiergeneral. He defended Nashville in 1862; was promoted to a major-general for gallant services at Stone River; and served with credit in the campaign of Tallahoma, Alabama, and Georgia. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third and forty-ninth congresses as a republican.
Nehlig, Victor
artist, was born in 1830 in France. His principal works , many of which are illustrative of American history, are The Cavalry Charge of St. Harry B. Hidden, in the New York New York Historical society; The Artist's Dream; Dream; The Captive Huguenot; Gertrude of Wyoming; Hiawatha and Minnehaha; Ar- ; Armorer in the Olden Time; Battle at Anat Antietam; Battle of Gettysburg; Waiting for My Enemy; Serenade; The Bravo; Ma- Mahogany Cutting; and The Princess Pocahontas.
Neil, John B
governor. He was appointed governor of Idaho for the term of term of four years from July, 1880.
Neill, Edward Duffield
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 9, 1823 , in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a reformed episcopal clergyman of St. Paul, but forbut formerly a presbyterian clergyman. He was He was the author of History of Minnesota ; Terra Mariæ, or Threads of Maryland History; The Fairfaxes of England and and America; History of the Virginia Company; English Colonization of America in the Seventeenth Century; Founders of Virginia; Virginia Vetusta; Virginia Car- Virginia Carolorum; and Concise History of Minneof Minnesota. He died Sept. 26, 1893, in St. Paul, in St. Paul , Minn.
Neill, John
physician, author, was born July 9, 1819, in Philadelphia , Pa.
He was a Philadelphia physician, and the , and the author of Neill on the Veins; and Com- ; and Compend of Medicine. He died Feb. 11, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Neill, Robert
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 12, 1838, in In- 1838, in Independence county, Ark. He was lieutenwas lieutenant-colonel of Arkansas state guards from guards from 1874 to 1877, and brigadiergeneral of state militia from 1877 to 1882. He has 1882. He has served two terms as a member of the of the democratic state central committee of Arkansas since 1886; and was nominated and elected to the fifty-third congress and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Neill, Thomas Hewson
soldier, was born April 9, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was acting inspector -general in Sheridan's Shenandoah campaign, and at and at the close of the war received the brevets the brevets of brigadier-general, United States army, and major-general of volunteers. He was . He was commandant of cadets at the United the United States military academy from 1875 till 1879, and in 1883 he was retired .
Neill, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1778 near McKeesport , Pa.
He was a presbyterian minister of Philaof Philadelphia, president of Dickinson college in college in 1824-29; and the author of Lectures on Lectures on Bible History; Divine Origin of the Christian Religion; and Ministry of Fifty Years.
Fifty Years.
He died Aug. 8, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Neilson, John
congressman , was born March 11, 1745, in New Brunswick , N. J. He was a delegate from New Jerfrom New Jersey to the continental congress in 1778 in 1778 and 1779. He died March 3, 1833, in New 1833, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Neilson, Joseph
author, was born in 1813 in New York. He was the author was the author of Memoirs of Rufus Choate, with some Consideration of His Studies, Opinions, and Style. He died in 1888.
Neligan, William
clergyman, author, was born in Ireland. He was the was the author of Saintly Characters; The Ro- ; The Rosary; Manual for Confraternities; and ; and other religious works. He died Jan. 30, Jan. 30, 1880, in New York city.
Nelson, Charles A
civil engineer, librarian, poet, was born April 14, 1839, 14, 1839, in Calais, Maine. For many years he was years he was librarian at the Gorham academy ; then at the New York Astor library; and now and now at the New Orleans Memorial library . He is the author of a number of meritorious of meritorious poems.
Nelson, Cleveland Kinlock
clergyman, bishop, was born May 23, 1852, 23, 1852, in Greenwood, Va. He has filled many important pastorates in the presbyterian church, and in 1892 was consecrated bishop of Georgia.
Nelson, Daniel Thurber
physician, educator, was born Sept. 16, 1839, in 1839, in Milford, Mass. In 1866 he was elected was elected professor of physiology and histology at Chicago Medical college, which chair he chair he then held until 1880, and in 1881 he was he was made adjunct professor of gynecology at Rush Medical college. He has invented an improved trivalve speculum and other surgical instruments.
Nelson, David
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 24, 1793, near Jonesborough, Tenn. He was a presbyterian minister and educator of Missouri and Illiand Illinois. His principal work, Cause and Cure of Infidelity, has been widely read He died Oct. 17, 1844, in Oakland, Ill.
Nelson, Harry Leverett
lawyer, author, was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. He was a lawyer of Worcester, Mass., and the author of Bird Songs About Worcester, a collection of nature collection of nature studies. He died in 1889.
Nelson, Henry Addison
clergyman, educator, journalist, author, was born Oct. 31, 1820, in Amherst, Mass.
He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor at Lane seminary in 1868-74, and from 1886 editor of The Church at Home and Home and Abroad. He is the author of Seeing Jesus; Sin and Salvation; and Home Whispers.
Nelson, Henry Loomis
journalist, author, was born in 1846 in New York .
He is a journalist of New York city , and editor-in-chief of Harper's Weekly.
He is the author of The Money We Need ; Our Unjust Tariff Law; and John Rantoul, a novel.
Nelson, Homer A
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1829, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was elected judge of Dutchess county, N. Y., for four years, and in 1859 was re-elected for a seca second term. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyeighth congress. In 1867 he was elected secretary of state; and re-elected in 1868 in 1868 and 1869.
Nelson, Hugh
lawyer, jurist, diplomat, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1768, 30, 1768, in Virginia. He was speaker of the house of the house of the of delegates of Virginia; a judge of the general court; and a presidential elector in 1809. He was a member of congress of congress from 1811 to 1823; and was immediately afterward appointed American minister to Spain. He died March 18, 1836, in , 1836, in Albemarle county.
Nelson, Jeremiah
merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 14, 1769, in 1769, in Rowley, Mass. He served as a representaa representative in congress from Massachusetts 1805 to 1807, and again from 1815 to 1823. to 1823.
He died Oct. 2, 1838, in Newburyport , Mass.
Nelson, John
lawyer, congressman, was born June 1, 1791, in Fredericktown, Md. He was a representative in congress in congress from Maryland from 1821 to 1823. In 1831 1823. In 1831 he was appointed charge d'affaires to the d'affaires to the Two Sicilies; and in 1844 was appointed was appointed attorney-general of the United States.
United States.
He died Jan. 8, 1860, in Baltimore , Md.
Nelson, Josiah C
farmer, legislator, was born May 25, 1827, in Jackson county, Jackson county, Mo.
He was elected in 1858 as a member of the Missouri state legislature, the first legislature of that state; and he received and he received the re-election for two successive terms. successive terms. a
Nelson, Julia Bullard
educator, lecturer, philanthropist, was born May 13, born May 13, 1842, in High Ridge, Ky. She has taught school in Minnesota, has taught school in Minnesota, Connecticut, Texas, and Tennessee; and has attained success as lecturer and missionary. For many years she was an organizer and lecturer of the Minnesota National American Woman Suffrage association; and became famous in the lecture field as the champion of woman's right to the ballot.
She has been president of the Minnesota Woman's Suffrage association; and viceand vicepresident of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Minnesota. She is the is the widow of a soldier and spent many years many years as a missionary among the freed men of men of the south, and has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.